{"id":17815,"date":"2013-02-05T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T10:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/refund-for-lances-autobiography-buyers\/"},"modified":"2013-02-05T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T10:54:42","slug":"refund-for-lances-autobiography-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/refund-for-lances-autobiography-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Refund for Lance\u2019s autobiography buyers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disgruntled buyers of cyclist Lance Armstrong\u2019s autobiography are demanding a refund in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Are they really entitled to their money back?<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t about the bike, after all. It was about the drugs, the lies and the remorseless smears levelled at anyone who dared stand up to him.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclist\u2019s televised confession that he cheated his way to seven Tour de France victories between 1999 and 2005 rendered his two autobiographies \u2013 It\u2019s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000) and sequel Every Second Counts (2003) \u2013 hollow and fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>The admission shattered the faith of millions, and now readers who bought into Armstrong\u2019s inspiring fabrications \u2013 about his fightback from cancer to sporting triumph through honest hard work \u2013 are seeking compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Two Californians have filed a class-action lawsuit against the cyclist and his publishers Penguin and Random House \u2013 on behalf of themselves and other residents of California who bought the books \u2013 demanding refunds and other costs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21250032\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> \u2013 BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgruntled buyers of cyclist Lance Armstrong\u2019s autobiography are demanding a refund in the courts. Are they really entitled to their money back? It wasn\u2019t about the bike, after all. It was about the drugs, the lies and the remorseless smears levelled at anyone who dared stand up to him. The cyclist\u2019s televised confession that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}